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Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a
particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep,
stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly
original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does
not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum
explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging
examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies,
jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues
that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived
strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question.
Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where
abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good
music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse
rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue
with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We
can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the
conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of
making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.
A piece a week Piano Grade 4 is ideal to be used alongside the
Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and
improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful
sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to
be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new
repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye
coordination are established and improved, developing confident
sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill,
enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with
other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading!
series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to
develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded
exams.
Brass Mix is an original series of graded pieces that can be played
by any brass instrument. Book 2 covers Grades 4 & 5 and
contains 8 new pieces for solo brass and piano, specially
commissioned from some of today's most dynamic composers for brass.
The pieces showcase a diverse range of styles and align with ABRSM
grade levels. Many are featured on the ABRSM 2023 Brass syllabus
and in addition, all are ideal choices for Performance Grade
exams.Key features:-one piece at each grade and list of the ABRSM
2023 Brass syllabus, for all instruments -distinctive and engaging
repertoire from which to build a programme for a Practical or
Performance Grade exam - a single student book that can be used by
treble- and bass-clef brass including Eb Tuba -separate Bb, Eb and
F piano accompaniment books -a downloadable part for Bb Tuba.
Contents: Rapscallion [Andrea Price] Sunday at the Boulevard
[Christopher Augustine] Horizon [Clare Elton] Cumbianita para Ti
[Shanti Paul Jayasinha] Lethe [Callum Au] By the River [Shanti Paul
Jayasinha] A Postcard from Wasdale [Florence Anna Maunders] Koli
[Shri Sriram]
Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is a greatly expanded
version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that includes lesson,
theory, technic and additional repertoire in a convenient,
"all-in-one" format. This comprehensive course adds such features
as isometric hand exercises, finger strengthening drills, and
written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts. The
accompanying DVD includes an introduction to all the pages in the
book and performances of the pieces by well-known teacher, Gayle
Kowalchyk. Titles: Alouette * Alpine Melody * Amazing Grace * Au
Claire de la Lune * Aunt Rhody * Auld Lang Syne * Aura Lee * The
Bandleader * Beautiful Brown Eyes * Blow the Man Down * Blues for
Wynton Marsalis * Brother John * Caf? Vienna * The Can-Can *
Chasing the Blues Away * Chiapanecas * Cockles and Mussels * The
Cuckoo * Day is Done * Dueling Harmonics * The Entertainer * A
Friend Like You * Go Down, Moses * Good King Wenceslas * Good
Morning to You * Good People * Got Those Blues * Greensleeves *
Happy Birthday to You * Harmonica Rock * Harp Song * Here's a Happy
Song * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * I'm Gonna Lay My
Burden Down * Jericho * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World *
Kum-ba-yah * Largo (Dvorak) * Lavender's Blue * Lightly Row *
Little Brown Jug * Liza Jane * London Bridge * Lone Star Waltz *
Love Somebody * Lullaby * The Marine's Hymn * Mary Ann * Merrily We
Roll Along * Mexican Hat Dance * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore *
Money Can't Buy Everything * My Fifth * Ode to Joy * On Top of Old
Smoky * O Sole Mio * Raisins and Almonds * Rock Along * Rockets *
Rockin' Intervals * Rock It Away * Scarborough Fair * Shoo, Fly,
Shoo * Skip to My Lou * Standing in the Need of Prayer * The
Stranger * Tisket, a Tasket * Waltzing Chords * Waltz Time * What
Can I Share * When the Saints Go Marching In * Why Am I Blue?
The material in this book is a combination of solo transcriptions,
exercises and play-along charts derived from the video Simon
Phillips. This book and audio package not only provides you with an
array of soloing, groove, and song ideas, but also gives you the
outlet for applying these new concepts.
This comprehensive reference guide provides: 1,300+ chords in
treble and bass clef notation; 42 chord qualities with multiple
voicings for most chords; keyboard diagrams for each chord; and
music theory info to aid in chord construction. A must for every
piano player!
Featuring 14 of the funkiest tunes in such styles as gospel, blues,
soul, funk, go-go, new jack swing, and hip-hop, this play-along
package chronologically documents the evolution of R&B drumming
from the 1950s through the late '90s. Included are songs made
popular by R&B legends such as James Brown, The Meters, Aretha
Franklin, and Janet Jackson. The CD tracks are performed by an
all-star R&B band featuring Al McKay, the legendary guitarist
of Earth, Wind & Fire. The book also provides historical
insight, tips for approaching the music, groove examples, rare
photos, and album cover artwork.
Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition
addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and
agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common
European musical language. It treats the score as an incomplete
musical shorthand that outlines the compositional and interpretive
imperatives implicit within it, drawing on historical records from
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and detailed comparisons of
works to underline the author's presentation of Viennese tradition.
This book is not primarily concerned with questions of style or
interpretation. Rather, it explains the many facets of musical
notation that were taken for granted by composers who assumed a
knowledge of the piano tradition of their day. Notes Become Music
informs not only those students in countries where the central
European music tradition is still unfamiliar, but also a younger
generation of Europeans who have grown up without a living
connection to their musical past.
Clarinet Basics is a landmark method by one of the leading figures
in clarinet education. It starts at absolute beginner level and
progresses to about elementary level.
There are 22 stages, each section includes a wonderful variety of
concert pieces from the great composers, traditional tunes and fun,
original exercises, 'finger gyms' and 'warm ups' to help establish
a sound technique, 'fact files' and 'quizzes' to teach notation and
general musicianship, helpful, clear 'fingering charts' and 'rhythm
boxes' and great illustrations.
This Book/CD edition is the perfect resource as the CD contains all
the accompaniments to all the pieces as well as providing
additional parts for the duets and trios. It is most suitable for
those wanting to teach themselves.
It's never too early to encourage good sight-reading in young
players. Now revised to support ABRSM's Initial Grade, this book is
designed to lay the foundations at the most fundamental level,
through the proven, systematic formula of the highly acclaimed
Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul
Harris. Step by step a complete picture of each piece is built up,
firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to a
specific technical issue, then through prepared pieces with
associated questions, and finally 'going solo' with a series of
meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. Also includes supporting
audio available online for students to check their performances
against.
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz
and cinema to dance and literature-this volume's contributors
locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social
and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and
political practice, improvisation aids in the creation,
contestation, and codification of social realities and identities.
Among other topics, the contributors discuss the social aesthetics
of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the
Feminist Improvising Group, and contemporary Malian music, as well
as the virtual sociality of interactive computer music, the
significance of "uncreative" improvisation, responses to French New
Wave cinema, and the work of figures ranging from bell hooks and
Billy Strayhorn to Kenneth Goldsmith. Across its diverse chapters,
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics argues that ensemble
improvisation is not inherently egalitarian or emancipatory, but
offers a potential site for the cultivation of new forms of social
relations. It sets out a new conceptualization of the aesthetic as
immanently social and political, proposing a new paradigm of
improvisation studies that will have reverberations throughout the
humanities. Contributors. Lisa Barg, Georgina Born, David Brackett,
Nicholas Cook, Marion Froger, Susan Kozel, Eric Lewis, George E.
Lewis, Ingrid Monson, Tracey Nicholls, Winfried Siemerling, Will
Straw, Zoe Svendsen, Darren Wershler
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(Transcribed). 20 studies for the classical guitar written by
Beethoven's contemporary, Fernando Sor. Revised, edited and
fingered by the great classical guitarist Andres Segovia. These
essential repertoire pieces continue to be used by teachers and
students to build solid classical technique.
Contents are: The Flowers Are Sleeping (Folk Song) * The Silent
Moon (Folk Song) * Early One Morning (Folk Song) * Siciliana from
Sonata in F Major III (G.F. Handel) * Menuet in D Minor from Suite
No. 2 in B Minor (J.S. Bach) * Larghetto from Sonata in F Major I
(G.F. Handel) * BourrA(c)e in B-Flat Major from the Water Music
Suite (G.F. Handel) * Larghetto from Sonata in G Minor I (G.F.
Handel) * BourrA(c)e in G Minor from the Royal Fireworks Suite
(G.F. Handel) * Menuet in A Minor from Suite No. 4 in E Minor (C.
Dieupart) * March in F Major, BWV Anh. 122 (C.P.E. Bach) * Presto
from Sonata in G Minor IV (G.F. Handel) * BourrA(c)e in F Major
from the Water Music Suite (Harmony Part) (G.F. Handel) *
BourrA(c)e in D Minor from the Water Music Suite (Harmony Part)
(G.F. Handel).
This book reinforces the fundamentals of music being studied in the
ADULT PIANO STUDENT. It consists of 47 Programmed Theory Lessons.
The material for each lesson is divided into steps called "frames."
Many of the same frames are presented several times for review thus
reinforcing fundamentals already presented. When this book has been
successfully completed, the student will be prepared to play,
understand, and enjoy music at this level of advancement. All three
levels in this series may also be used with any other course of
study.
Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program is a practical guide to
assist secondary and post-secondary music educators with the tasks
involved in establishing a successful music program. With the
rising interest in guitar, Mariachi, rock band, handbells,
bluegrass, music technology, and so on, more and more music
educators are being asked to teach innovative music classes. Author
Bill Swick has crafted this book to help these educators build such
innovative music programs from the ground floor, based on his years
of experience as a music educator specialized in guitar. The book
will assist music educators with classroom management, scheduling,
structure, organization, fund raising, festivals, travel, and other
subjects related to teaching guitar in the classroom, but its
principles are broadly relevant to any and all music educators
hoping to create a unique program that stands out within their
school district and state, attracting students, parents, educators
and administrators alike.
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